Events

Friday: Photoshop your face

]]>http://pivotallabs.com/invest-in-gas-now/feed/0Apple, IBM, and Commercial Fishing Nets, OH MY!http://pivotallabs.com/apple-ibm-and-commercial-fishing-nets-oh-my/
http://pivotallabs.com/apple-ibm-and-commercial-fishing-nets-oh-my/#commentsThu, 11 Dec 2014 14:40:41 +0000http://pivotallabs.com/?p=31821Interestings No More "Ghost Nets" Lost and abandoned commercial fishing nets ("Ghost Nets") may be a thing of the past. Engineering student in Spain comes up with an RFID tracking system to reduce their occurrence, and a net that biodegrades in 4 years just in case they are lost. http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/trackable-biodegradable-fish-nets-could-put-end-ghost-nets.htmlaaa

No More "Ghost Nets"

Lost and abandoned commercial fishing nets ("Ghost Nets") may be a thing of the past. Engineering student in Spain comes up with an RFID tracking system to reduce their occurrence, and a net that biodegrades in 4 years just in case they are lost.

Congratulations to the winners of the Goodlife Fitness Raffle

]]>http://pivotallabs.com/goodlife-fitness-prizes/feed/0This is your….friday standuphttp://pivotallabs.com/this-is-your-friday-standup/
http://pivotallabs.com/this-is-your-friday-standup/#commentsFri, 05 Dec 2014 17:13:37 +0000http://pivotallabs.com/?p=31776Interestings Illuminate SF A beautiful list of sixteen LED/light installations and several December events to get your shine on in SF including artists like James Campbell and James Turrell. http://www.illuminatesf.com/#/content/illuminate-sf-tour

]]>http://pivotallabs.com/pineapple-lump-monday/feed/0Standup Nov 20http://pivotallabs.com/standup-nov-20/
http://pivotallabs.com/standup-nov-20/#commentsThu, 20 Nov 2014 22:06:01 +0000http://pivotallabs.com/?p=31609Interestings Capybara using_session leaves dangling web servers We were using Capybara.using_session with email addresses as the key for the session. Our email addresses were being randomly generated by Faker. This is a bad combo. Each new session name spawns a new web server (phantomjs in our case) and it doesn'taaa

Capybara using_session leaves dangling web servers

We were using Capybara.using_session with email addresses as the key for the session. Our email addresses were being randomly generated by Faker. This is a bad combo. Each new session name spawns a new web server (phantomjs in our case) and it doesn't get shut down till the test suite is finished. In our case this meant we had a lot of processes/files open and ran into ulimit issues all the time.

ALSO, each new server incurs the server start up penalty (Rails app), so the first time you hit a page you incur a couple seconds of spec time. This added up to two full minutes on our test suite.